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Adolescence is a compelling Netflix series that examines the dark consequences of toxic masculinity and online radicalization among youth. The narrative centers on the Miller family, whose lives are upended when 13-year-old Jamie is arrested for the murder of his classmate, Katie Leonard. Through powerful performances and a thought-provoking storyline, the series sheds light on the pervasive influence of the “manosphere” and the challenges faced by modern adolescents. This article provides an overview of the plot and introduces the ensemble cast of Adolescence that brings this poignant story to life.

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Set in a northern English town, Adolescence begins with the arrest of 13-year-old Jamie Miller for the fatal stabbing of his classmate, Katie Leonard. As the investigation unfolds, it becomes evident that Jamie had been influenced by toxic online communities promoting misogyny and violence. The series delves into the psychological and social factors contributing to Jamie’s actions,...

The following contains spoilers for A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story. now streaming on BritBox.

BritBox's A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story wants to add to British television's long history of great crime dramas. It's halfway there, with a cast whom fans will know -- even if they don't recognize the actors right away in the 1950s setting. But the script for the four-episode miniseries isn't intriguing enough to make viewers care about Ruth's predicament, beyond the terrible way in which she was executed.

As the title indicates, Ruth was the victim of abuse at the hands of her boyfriend David Blakely. She becomes the police's prime suspect when David ends up dead. The miniseries features great performances by Lucy Boynton as Ruth and Toby Jones as her beleaguered solicitor John Bickford. But it doesn't separate itself enough from countless other true crime stories, or stories about women who have been wronged.

Today, BritBox announced the greenlight of new Original series A Taste for Murder. The six-part crime procedural produced by Eagle Eye Drama and in association with ITV Studios, commences filming on location in Croatia and later in Italy. Set amidst the steep cliffs and fast tides of Capri, A Taste for Murder features classic Italian cuisine as the main ingredient to each episode’s central murder mystery, revealing the power of food to foster connection, community, and healing after devastating loss.

Warren Brown (The Responder, Trigger Point, Ten Pound Poms) stars as Dci Joe Mottram, a star detective with the Metropolitan police. After a personal tragedy, he retreats to Capri with his daughter to stay with his Italian in-laws for the summer. Unsure how to face his own grief, let alone help heal his daughter’s broken heart, he quickly becomes immersed in the local murder cases on the island.

BritBox has given the green light to the new Original series A Taste for Murder, a six-part crime procedural produced by Eagle Eye Drama in association with ITV Studios. The series has started filming on location in Croatia and will also shoot in Italy.

Set amidst the cliffs and fast tides of Capri, A Taste for Murder features classic Italian cuisine as the main ingredient in each episode’s central murder mystery, revealing the power of food to foster connection, community, and healing after devastating loss.

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Warren Brown stars as Dci Joe Mottram, a star detective with the Metropolitan Police. After a personal tragedy, he retreats to Capri with his daughter to stay with his Italian in-laws for the summer.

Unsure how to face his grief, let alone help heal his daughter’s broken heart, he quickly becomes immersed in the local murder cases on the island.

When it comes to great television, the Brits are known for their compelling detective dramas that brilliantly blend complex characters with unexpected twists, especially their willingness to kill off fan-favorites as seen in shows like Happy Valley and Line of Duty. The ITV series Trigger Point, however, puts a unique spin on the genre, centering around Lana Washington (Vicky McClure), an explosive ordinance disposal officer (also known as an "Expo") who works for the London Metropolitan Police. In her line of work, Lana is always prepared for the worst. However, as the series unfolds, her personal and professional lives begin to intersect, putting both Lana and the people she cares about in danger. Series creator Daniel Brierley was mentored by Jed Mercurio, the prolific writer behind shows like the aforementioned Line of Duty and the hit Netflix miniseries Bodyguard.

Actor and producer Barry Pepper has signed with Paradigm Talent Agency for full representation.

Pepper is best known for his role as Private Jackson in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. He most recently starred opposite Sam Neill in the crime thriller feature, Bring Him to Me, directed by Luke Spark, and in Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ limited series Lawmen: Bass Reeves opposite David Oyelowo.

His previous filmography includes the Coen Brothers’ True Grit remake starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon, Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, The Green Mile, starring Tom Hanks, The Death Cure: Maze Runner 3, and Paramount Pictures’ We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson.

Other recent projects include Netflix’s feature film Awake, alongside Gina Rodriguez, Bron Studios’ Solitary and the action thriller feature Trigger Point. Pepper starred as Robert Kennedy in the Reelz Channel 8 hour miniseries The Kennedy’s with Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes.

The following contains major spoilers from Trigger Point Series 2, Episodes 5 & 6, now streaming on BritBox. It also contains descriptions of violence.

The final two episodes of Trigger Point feel like what the show was meant to be. Series 2, Episodes 5 & 6 are the strongest of the season -- but that may be because they rely more than ever on the strength of lead actor Vicky McClure. McClure's character Lana Washington is the center around which the episodes revolve, and because of that, they feel powerful and tense in ways that the rest of the season often hasn't. It creates a bittersweet feeling, as audiences can see the potential of this show should it continue past this point.

Episode 5 picks up with Lana having formed a rapport with Alex, the man working for the terrorist group now identified as The Wave. Lana taking the initiative in helping Alex and getting him on side doesn't...

Trigger Point Series 2 has continued to put Lana Washington through the wringer -- and Vicky McClure knows it. McClure stars as the battle-hardened bomb disposal expert, who is trying to put her life back together after an excruciating first season that involved the deaths of Lana's brother Billy and her partner Joel, among others. Unfortunately, the second season hasn't been much kinder.

Audiences have watched Lana return to duty after going overseas to train foreign officers, only to walk into a new terrorist threat known only as The Wave. Ahead of the Trigger Point Series 2 finale, Cbr spoke with McClure to talk about why she not only enjoys, but admires the character of Lana Washington. Plus, she addressed the comparisons between Trigger Point and her hit series Line of Duty.

Cbr: What drew you back to portraying the character of Lana Washington? Was there anything that felt like it needed...

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The biggest strength of Trigger Point is the show's explosive action -- literally. The British television series is at its best when Lana Washington and her colleagues are searching for a bomb or staring it in the face. But those action sequences require a lot of training, as well as specialized expertise. That's where Paul Bidiss and Joel Snarr come in.

Paul and Joel served as technical advisors on Trigger Point, lending their real-world expertise to these fictional emergencies. Joel is a former bomb disposal expert who served in 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Search Regiment Rlc, including tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland. Paul served as a Paratrooper before becoming a military technical advisor for a wide range of TV series, including HBO's hit House of the Dragon. Both spoke to Cbr about the technical intricacies and training that went into making Trigger Point.

Cbr: Paul, you...

The following contains major spoilers for Trigger Point Series 2, Episodes 3 & 4, now streaming on BritBox.

When Trigger Point returned for a second season, it was an opportunity to dig deeper into Lana Washington and the high-stakes world in which she operates. Four episodes into Series 2 and the British television drama has only accomplished the first part. While Episodes 3 & 4 provide a further look into Lana's mind, every other character in her vicinity continues to be broadly drawn and nowhere near as interesting.

Episodes 3 & 4 pick up after the death of Dci Thom Youngblood, with the police determined to find out who pushed one of their own down an elevator shaft. But the hunt is still on for the organization that person was working for, and they finally get a name as well as some more faces. Yet the plot is still a few pieces short of the top-notch British drama that the show wants to be.

The following contains major spoilers from Trigger Point Series 2, Episodes 1 & 2, now streaming on BritBox.

The Trigger Point Series 2 premiere reaffirms that Vicky McClure is one of the biggest talents working today. Unfortunately, the rest of the show hasn't improved as much as it could have between seasons. The bomb-disposal thriller makes for dramatic British television, but it's still got many of the writing flaws that made it underwhelming during Series 1.

Series 2 picks up six months after what happened in Trigger Point's first season, and premiere co-writers Daniel Brierly and Simon Ashdown wisely use that gap to do a soft reset. Pretty much everything looks different when McClure's character Lana Washington returns from a tour of duty overseas. But the first two episodes don't know how to balance Lana's adjustment with the latest bomb threat, and so there are great ideas lost amongst others that never land.

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A brand new season of British television thriller Trigger Point is coming to BritBox, and there's no one who knows how to write British TV drama better than Jed Mercurio. The award-winning writer and producer is one of the executive producers of Trigger Point, and mentored the show's creator Daniel Brierly as the idea got off the ground. In an interview with Cbr, Mercurio talked about continuing to develop the project in the second season and what he continues to enjoy about Trigger Point.

The second series picks up six months after the events of Trigger Point Series 1, with explosives expert Lana Washington returning to London. Almost everything has changed during her absence. However, it's not long before Lana is pressed back into service to deal with a new city-wide threat. Mercurio reflects on Lana's challenges and the growth of the series overall.

Cbr: You're not just an executive producer...

A new month brings new BritBox arrivals for British TV lovers!

Before “Taskmaster” returns to Channel 4 on Thursday, Sept. 12, starting binging new arrival “Man Down,” created/written by and starring Greg Davies. The full series will come to the streamer throughout the month, with each season of the four-season series premiering on Mondays beginning Sept. 2.

Crawl into the criminal underbelly with the International Emmy Award-winning three-part crime thriller “Des,” starring David Tennant as infamous Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Also new this month are Season 5 of crime drama “The Bay” and Season 3 of police procedural “The Tower,” which will begin streaming new weekly episodes this month.

Ready to watch? Find out The Streamable’s top picks for what’s new, and find out everything coming to BritBox throughout September!

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BBC Studios has announced the titles coming to BritBox in September 2024, which include everything from new BritBox Originals to classic British fare. BritBox is a digital video subscription service offering the largest collection of British TV in the U.S. and Canada.

The September lineup features season two of the hit bomb squad drama Trigger Point, the fifth season of The Bay, and the third season of The Tower. True crime drama Des, starring BAFTA-winner David Tenant, will also be available.

Trigger Point Season 2

BritBox is the leading streaming destination for the best of British television and culture, offering the most comprehensive, must-see collection of British entertainment all in one place. The service provides a pipeline of exceptional storytelling and showcases the depth and breadth of British creativity from across the UK.

BritBox curates a quality selection of classic titles and original commissions across various genres, including dramas, comedies, documentaries,...

Today, BritBox, the premiere streaming destination for British television offering the biggest and best collection of unmissable British television, announced a dynamic slate of upcoming Original series.

Sharing a suspenseful teaser, BritBox announced that the thrilling new mystery Passenger, led by Wunmi Mosaku (Loki), will premiere in October. In the captivating screenwriting debut of actor Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch), inexplicable crimes haunt the fictional village of Chadder Vale, where perhaps more is afoot than meets the eye.

Barry Sloane (Revenge), David Threlfall (Shameless), and Rowan Robinson (A Haunting in Venice) also star in the atmospheric crime drama.

Summer will see the powerful return of gritty, impactful crime dramas, starting with the June 13 return of Blue Lights. A breakout hit in the UK, the Belfast-based series delves into complex local politics through the lens of a police drama.

Multi-bafta-nominated The Responder returns July 11 for a new season, once again led by Martin Freeman...

Whether playing Di Kate Fleming in Line of Duty or a back-against-the-wall bomb disposal expert in ITV’s Trigger Point, Vicky McClure has mastered the art of procedurals over the years.

But in Paramount+ series Insomnia from The Crown producer Left Bank, in which she plays a career woman, Emma, who experiences a breakdown when she suddenly stops being able to sleep, the actor-producer bucked the trend.

“I feel like I’ve grown up, I’m 40 now,” McClure told an Insomnia Q&a in London late last month. “There’s a lot of procedural drama that I do and I enjoy it, but I was excited to step into something that felt different.” McClure added that she quite enjoyed walking in heels for the entirety of the series, for example.

McClure’s challenge was made trickier by the fact she has never suffered from insomnia – although “just a bad night...

Exclusive: Gilles Bannier, the director of the first seasons of hit series Blue Lights and Trigger Point is opening up a new drama indie, Alef UK. The London-based label will be a subsidiary of Alef One, Nora Melhli’s Paris-based prodco that counts Flight MH370 and doc Carlos Ghosn The Last Flight among its credits.

French born writer-director Bannier has been based in England for a decade and will be Creative Director of the new UK drama business. His directing credits include iconic dramas Spiral and Les Beaux Mecs as well as The Tunnel, which is where he first collaborated with Melhli, who was a producer on the Kudos drama. The duo also worked together on Tim Roth-starrer Tin Star.

Melhli worked at Endemol and Altice before teaming with Jacques Arthur Essebag to create Alef One in 2018. She told Deadline that working with Bannier during Covid – and the problem-solving...

The following contains spoilers from Trigger Point Series 1, Episode 1, now streaming on BritBox.

There is a natural inclination to compare the TV series Trigger Point to Line of Duty. The bomb-disposal drama is produced by Jed Mercurio, the creator of Line of Duty. Its lead actor is Line of Duty actor Vicky McClure. But most importantly, Trigger Point feels like it wants to be Line of Duty -- and it falls far short of those high expectations.

In fairness to this show, which flew under the radar on its initial U.S. release and is now getting second exposure on BritBox, anything would fall short since Line of Duty is one of the best British crime dramas ever made. But Trigger Point, despite Mercurio's involvement and a cast packed with well-known faces, never drums up the tension it needs to match its premise. It's a run of the mill procedural in which things explode.

Lille — All3Media International has closed multiple major territories on ITV’s ratings champ “Trigger Point,” adding to stellar viewer numbers after Season 2 of the edge-of-the-seat thriller bowed last month averaging 6.9 million viewers across Itvx and ITV1.

That ranks as the third biggest audience for an ITV show since Jan. 2022.

Created by Daniel Brierly and produced by Htm Television, co-owned by Jed Mercurio, behind “Line of Duty” and “Bodyguard,” “Trigger Point” turns on members of a bomb disposal squad led by explosives officer Lana Washington (Vicky McClure).

Washington is back from Estonia, training Ukrainian bomb disposal operatives, having suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after the high body count of Season One. Almost immediately, there’s an explosion at the local power plant and Washington is the nearest expert. But can she hold her nerve?

Edge-of-seat nail-biting entertainment, critics concur, Season 2 buyers take in CBC in Canada, which recently debuted the new series on its streaming platform,...

The second season of Trigger Point is full of new adventures for Lana. She embarks on yet another mission to prevent a terrorist organization from gaining an upper hand in London. Vicky McClure has been pretty consistent in relentlessly giving her best performance on screen. Anti-capitalist terrorism is taking over the city by bombing several local and political arenas. Will Lana put an end to it? When asked to murder the home secretary, will she be able to choose between her professional interests and safety of her own family? Replete with elements of jump scares, the action drama Trigger Point is one of a kind!

Spoilers Ahead

What Happened After The Blast In The Power Station?

While Lana was training other EXPOs, there was an immense explosion at a power station. Lana was summoned to the spot, as the fire could spread further, causing the transformers to blow up. Lana...

Trigger Point, a British action-thriller drama directed by Gilles Bannier, is currently streaming on BritBox. The breathtaking acting skills of Vicky McClure are worth mentioning, and the detailed depiction of the tension among the members of the bomb squad has been portrayed efficiently. The drama revolves around several bombings that have been occurring in London. How Lana manages to handle the difficult situations along with her team has been thoroughly depicted. The gritty situation ends up snatching some of Lana’s closest people, but she doesn’t lose hope. Will Lana be able to unveil the truth behind the bombings? Will she be able to save the lives of the innocent? Let’s find out!

Spoilers Ahead

What Happened At Andy Phelan’s Residence?

Andy Phelan had been missing from the apartment that he had been staying in with his family. While the police were able to recover his wife...

Acclaimed filmmaker Lulu Wang hops to the small screen this week with Expats on Prime and she dropped by the podcast to tell us all about it. Plus we witness Sofía Vergara breaking bad as a cartel boss Griselda Blanco in Netflix's Griselda, revisit London's '90s criminal underworld in Sexy Beast on Paramount+, and rejoin Vicky McClure's bomb squad in the return of Trigger Point on ITV.

But that's not all, because the gang talk about the ups and downs of this year's Emmys (#justiceforBetterCallSaul) and Boyd and Kay once again try (and fail) to get James to care about The Traitors.

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2024 really is the year of the Difficult Second Series: after wowing us in 2023 and even earlier, shows like The Tourist, Extraordinary, The Rig, Suspect and Bad Sisters are on the way back for another helping this year, but the question is: will they live up to series one?

In among this, a trio of behemoth shows coming back: Doctor Who will return for series 14, or season one as it’s being styled, the first with Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, Wolf Hall is returning after nine years to cover the late Hilary Mantel’s final book in the trilogy, The Mirror and The Light, and dystopian anthology series Black Mirror will return to Netflix for its seventh series. There’s even talk of a prequel series to Red Dwarf, if that comes off.

This is our round-up of the British TV shows we’re most excited to see returning for new...

Tubi Hires Endeavor Exec For International Expansion

U.S. AVoD firm Tubi has hired David Salmon to become its Executive VP and Managing Director for International. The UK-based exec will report into Tubi CEO Anjali Sud. He’ll work on building out the business around the world, looking to capitalize on advertiser-funded growth in the streaming world. Salmon has spent more than a decade at Endeavor, where he was the founder and Cto of Endeavor Streaming, the agency’s video tech group. Tubi is currently available in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, Panama, Australia and New Zealand, and will be pushing into the UK and further into Latin America under Salmon’s guidance. “Tubi has an industry-leading position in the U.S. and we’re looking to replicate that success across international markets,” he said.

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Dark Asset is an action spy-thriller film directed by Michael Winnick, he also co-wrote the script with Terri Farley-Teruel. The action film follows the story of a guy, who is being hunted by spies, because of a microchip that was implanted in him. Starring Bryon Mann, Robert Patrick, and Helena Mattsson. So, if you loved Dark Asset here are some similar movies you could watch next.

Trigger Point (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Screen Media Films

Synopsis: A disgraced U.S. operative who suffered memory loss at the hand of captors is dragged back into the deadly spy world when a colleague goes missing. He needs all of his skills to find her but to uncover the truth he must remember the past.

The Bourne Identity (Prime Video) Credit – Universal Pictures

Synopsis: “A new action hero is Bourne!” (Access Hollywood) Get ready for the explosive, action-packed hit with incredible...

Line of Duty star Vicky McClure is to lead the cast of Paramount+ UK drama Insomnia.

We first revealed details of the Left Bank Pictures series, an adaptation of Sarah Pinborough’s sleep deprivation thriller novel, back in March and casting has now been revealed ahead of a planned 2024 launch. Furthermore, McClure’s production company Build Your Own Films has joined the production.

Also cast are Tom Cullen, Leanne Best, Lyndsey Marshal, Dominic Tighe, Jade Harrison, Corinna Marlowe, Robert Gilbert, Michelle Bonnard, India Fowler and Smylie Bradwell.

It has also emerged Börkur Sigthorsson will direct Insomnia and joins Andy Harries, Jessica Burdett, Tim Bricknell and Pinborough as executive producer.

McClure will play successful career woman Emma Averill, who fears she might be losing her mind, when her hard-won dream life starts to turn into a nightmare. A couple of weeks before her fortieth birthday Emma stops...

New images from Kristin Scott Thomas’ North Star (formally My Mother’s Wedding), have dropped. The film will have its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and is the directorial debut for Thomas. She also co-wrote the screenplay with John Micklethwait.

The cast includes Academy award nominee Scarlett Johansson, BAFTA award nominee Sienna Miller, and Cannes Best Actress winner Emily Beecham, who play the sisters. Academy award nominee and BAFTA award-winner Scott Thomas plays Diana Frost, their mother.

North Star follows three sisters from very different walks of life return to their childhood home to celebrate a momentous event: the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother, Diana (Kristin Scott Thomas). As the weekend unfolds in unexpected ways, Katherine (Scarlett Johansson), a Captain in the Royal Navy; Victoria (Sienna Miller), a Hollywood star; and Georgina (Emily Beecham), a palliative nurse,...

“The Long Shadow,” a true crime drama by “Hijack” and “Lupin” creator George Kay, has revealed a stellar cast.

Directed by BAFTA-winner director Lewis Arnold the 7 x 60′ series for U.K. broadcaster ITV and streamer Itvx, drama is a depiction of the five-year hunt for serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, focusing on the lives of the victims who crossed his path and those of the officers at the heart of the police investigation.

Toby Jones (“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”) plays Dennis Hoban, who initially led the enquiry, with David Morrissey (“Sherwood”) as George Oldfield, who took on the investigation. The cast also includes Lee Ingleby, Katherine Kelly, Daniel Mays, Sydney Jackson, Shaun Thomas, Jill Halfpenny, Daisy Waterstone, Jasmine Lee-Jones, Molly Wright, Liz White, Shaun Dooley, Alexa Davies, Chloe Harris, Stephen Tompkinson, Jack Deam, Michael McElhatton, Adam Long, Ruth Madeley, Dorothy Atkinson, Rob James-Collier, Charley Webb, Steven Waddington and Kris Hitchen.

Filming has begun on the second series of ITV1 and Itvx drama Trigger Point starring Vicky McClure in the lead role as a police bomb disposal officer – an Expo. The first series, which focused on the Expo officers in the Metropolitan Police Bomb Disposal Squad, who risk their lives daily in the face of danger, was commissioned by ITV’s Head of Drama, Polly Hill, and was the best performing drama of 2022, averaging 9.5m viewers per episode. Commented Polly Hill: “I’m delighted to have commissioned a second series of Trigger Point and to be working again with Vicky McClure and the Htm Television production team. It’s the most compelling of dramas and I can’t wait for the audience to see what we have in store for series two.” Alongside Vicky McClure (Without Sin), who stars as Lana ‘Wash’ Washington, the second series features returning cast members Nabil Elouahabi as Hass,...

101 Films Intl. has secured worldwide distribution rights for World War II adventure film “War Blade,” starring Joseph Millson, Paul Marlon (“Trigger Point”), Michael McKell and Rebecca Scott. The sales company is presenting the film to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin.

The film was written and directed by Nicholas Winter.

“War Blade” follows Robert Banks, an agent of the British Special Operations Executive, who is tasked with rescuing a French resistance fighter from a hidden Nazi bunker. With the help of a German nurse and a ragtag group of allies, Banks must journey to the belly of the beast.

With his commanders already suspecting the bunker holds much more than prisoners, and a group full of fragile personalities to deal with, Banks faces dangers from all fronts. Always outnumbered and outgunned, Banks and his group must use their guile to outwit the enemy and survive the deadly mission.

Distributor Hat Trick International (Hti) has closed multiple international sales on ITV series “Di Ray,” from “Line of Duty” creator Jed Mercurio’s Htm Television.

Both seasons of the crime drama, created and written by former “Line of Duty” actor Maya Sondhi, have been acquired by PBS Distribution in a multi-rights deal that will see it broadcast across PBS’s 330+ member stations in the U.S. and streaming on PBS Passport, the PBS Video app and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel. The deal was brokered by Germaine Sweet, PBS Distribution’s managing director of content acquisitions and Jonathan South, Hti’s North American senior sales executive.

“Di Ray,” executive produced by Mercurio, debuted to strong ratings in 2022 as a 4 x 60′ series on U.K. broadcaster ITV, leading to a second season order of six episodes. Set in Birmingham, the series revolves around Rachita Ray, a Leicester-born police officer who...

Finally! After almost seven years, Happy Valley is back, and this BAFTA-winning crime drama’s third and final season is set to be as nail-biting as ever. These six fresh episodes from writer Sally Wainwright are definitely worth the wait.

Series Three dives back into the action around five years after the explosive events of the Series Two finale, beginning with Sergeant Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) discovering the remains of a gangland murder victim in a drained reservoir, a discovery which will lead her all the way back to her nemesis Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton).

Catherine still lives with her grandson Ryan (Rhys Connah) who’s now sixteen and working out what kind of relationship, if any, he wants with Royce, the man who fathered him when he raped Catherine’s daughter Becky. Needless to say, Catherine won’t take this well.

Still battling with the local drug problem,...

It’s been a funny year, one that started with Omicron stealing headlines (doesn’t that feel a while ago) and ended with strike action and snow causing disruption to the masses and a strange Qatar World Cup concluding with a cracking final, while Britain gets used to its third Prime Minister in the space of 12 months. In between, viewers were enchanted by dancers, singers, bomb disposal experts and a former Health Secretary eating camel penis. Here, Deadline unveils the most-watched UK TV shows of the year (excluding sport) according to 7-day-post-launch Barb data from overnights.tv, while rounding up the most-watched World Cup games at the bottom. Read on.

The State Funeral of Hm Queen Elizabeth circa – 25M (BBC/ITV/Sky etc – Monday September 19)

The Queen’s State Funeral

By some metrics, the state funeral of Hm Queen Elizabeth II was the most-watched UK TV broadcast of all time...

From Trigger Point to The Empress to Marie-Antoinette, the past year has been another stellar one in the world of international drama as a wealth of streamers splashed the cash on shows across the globe and public broadcasters joined together to greenlight the best talent in the business. Below, Deadline identifies just a few of the major launches set to light up the world of scripted in 2023. Read on.

The Swarm (Germany)

With numerous co-production partners already in place, this thriller from Game of Thrones EP Frank Doelger is one of the most hotly anticipated European dramas of 2023. Distributed by both Beta Films and Zdf Studios, the high-stakes adaptation of Frank Schätzing’s bestseller is an example of the modern TV drama world at play and has partners including Zdf, France TV, Rai and Hulu Japan, who all want a piece of The Swarm, which also counts Marc Huffam (Saving Private Ryan...

London Screenings

The London Screenings have revealed its full line-up of distributors, with the likes of Lionsgate and Sony Pictures Television officially joining the winter TV showcase in the U.K.

The Screenings, which will take place from Feb. 27 to March 3, have added Eccho Rights, Newen Connect, Viaplay Content Distribution, Lionsgate and Spt to its ranks. The new additions take the total number of host companies to 26.

The full list of participating companies includes: Abacus Media Rights, About Premium Content, Blue Ant Media, Bossanova Media, Cineflix Rights, Dcd Rights, Fifth Season, Hat Trick International, Keshet International, NBCUniversalFormats, Paramount Global Content Distribution, Passion Distribution, Red Arrow Studios International, Studiocanal, Tvf International and Warner Bros. International Television Production.

The event’s founding distributors are All3Media International, Banijay Rights, Entertainment One (eOne), Fremantle and ITV Studios.

A London TV Screenings spokesperson said: “For the 2023 edition of The London TV Screenings, our biggest yet,...

Exclusive: Hat Trick Productions, the storied British production company behind Derry Girls and Have I Got News For You, is courting sale talks.

Co-founded by Jimmy Mulville in 1986, Hat Trick has been a bastion of truly independent UK producers but is now entertaining interest from groups including All3Media and Fremantle.

The company has not formally declared it is up for sale and has not engaged the services of an M&a broker, but Deadline hears that it has recently held promising conversations with potential suitors.

Mulville has toyed with the idea of selling in the past, most recently in 2018, when he compared the process to a real estate agent valuing a house. Four years on, sources said there had been a flurry of interest in Hat Trick amid the success of shows including bomb squad drama Trigger Point.

Three sources said that All3Media, the super producer owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and Liberty Global,...

One of two major fantasy television hits this year came in the form of a Lord of the Rings show. Amazon’s The Rings of Power boasted huge numbers when the big-budget series premiered. It was a big investment for the streaming company and the Tolkien brand, Middle-Earth Productions, looks to expand to many areas of media for the franchise.

Season 2 was inevitable for the show, and Amazon Studios has just announced the cast for the next year of the series:

Oliver Alvin-wilson

Oliver Alvin-Wilson’s television credits include The Bay (ITV), as “Guy Townsend,” Murder in Provence (ITV) as “Luc Martinez,” Collateral (BBC) as ”Chips Benson” and Lovesick (Netflix) as “Alex.” In film, Oliver has been seen in Harkness, Wonder Woman 1984, and The Huntsman. Stuart Bowman

Stuart Bowman can currently be seen in the television series The Pact (BBC), Karen Pirie (ITV), and The Control Room (BBC). Gavi Singh Chera...

“Bridgerton” Season 2 breakout Calam Lynch has joined “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” cast, along with new additions Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Stuart Bowman, Gavi Singh Chera, William Chubb, Kevin

Eldon, Will Keen and Selina Lo.

The eight new members join previously announced Season 2 additions Gabriel Akuwudike, Yasen “Zates” Atour, Ben Daniels, Amelia Kenworthy, Nia Towle and Nicholas Woodeson.

Sam Hazeldine was also recently announced as a replacement for “Game of Thrones” alumnus Joseph Mawle as antagonist Adar.

As is custom for the series, character details for all are being kept under wraps.

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Lynch broke out in Netflix’s second season of “Bridgerton” with the role of Theo Sharpe, a love interest of sorts to the stubborn Eloise (Claudia Jessie). Other television credits include Channel 4’s “Derry Girls” and BBC’s “Mrs. Wilson.

Barry Pepper takes the lead in feature film “Bring Him to Me,” which is now shooting in Queensland, Australia, under director Luke Sparke (“Occupation Rainfall”). The picture is a mob thriller written by Tom Evans and which also stars Sam Neill and Rachel Griffiths.

Under orders from a ruthless crime boss, a getaway driver must battle his conscience and drive a young and unsuspecting passenger to an uncertain fate. Evans’ script was inspired by the traumatic scene in Martin Scorsese’s “Casino” in which Nicky Santoro (portrayed by Joe Pesci) unwittingly turns up for a meeting in a cornfield and things go South.

“I’ve been fascinated by morally gray stories like ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Drive,’ so when presented with the chance to dive deep into the underworld, I couldn’t resist bringing my own flavor to the genre, toeing the lines of film noir and graphic novels,” said Sparke.

The best in TV is being honoured at the National Television Awards 2022.

Nominees were announced in August, with Peaky Blinders, Heartstopperand Bridgerton all receiving multiple nods.

Voting for the NTAs closed hours ahead of the ceremony, which was broadcast on ITV on Thursday (13 October).

While This Morning’s flagship hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield were snubbed from this year’s nominations, others in contention included their colleague Alison Hammond, as well as Bradley Walsh, Graham Norton and Ant and Dec, who won in 2021 for the 20th year in a row.

Elsewhere, drama series such as Bridgerton, Peaky Blinders and Heartstopper celebrate nominations in their show categories, as well as for individual stars: Charithra Chandran and Jonathan Bailey for Bridgerton, Cillian Murphy for Peaky Blinders and Kit Connor and Joe Locke for Heartstopper.

You can find the winners list below.

New Drama

Trigger Point – Winner

Heartstopper

This Is Going to Hurt...

The best in TV is being honoured at the National Television Awards 2022.

Nominees were announced in August, with Peaky Blinders, Heartstopper and Bridgertonall receiving multiple nods.

Voting for the NTAs closed hours ahead of the ceremony, which was broadcast on ITV on Thursday (13 October).

While This Morning’s flagship hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield were snubbed from this year’s nominations, others in contention included their colleague Alison Hammond, as well as Bradley Walsh, Graham Norton and Ant & Dec, who won in 2021 for the 20th year in a row.

Elsewhere, drama series such as Bridgerton, Peaky Blinders and Heartstopper celebrate nominations in their show categories, as well as for individual stars: Charithra Chandran and Jonathan Bailey for Bridgerton, Cillian Murphy for Peaky Blinders and Kit Connor and Joe Locke for Heartstopper.

You can find the winners list below.

New Drama

Trigger Point – Winner

Heartstopper

This Is Going to Hurt...

The National Television Awards 2022 will take place tonight (Thursday 13 October) after months of anticipation.

Nominees were announced in August, with Peaky Blinders, Heartstopper and Bridgerton all receiving multiple nods.

Voting for the NTAs closes on Thursday 13 October at noon, hours ahead of the ceremony’s broadcast on ITV at 8.00pm.

However, in a surprise to some fans,This Morning’s flagship hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield are not in contention for any awards this year.

The hosting duo, who also present Dancing on Ice together, are usually staples in the list of nominations for TV Presenter.

Last year, only Willoughby was up for an award. This year’s list marks the first time since 2017 that neither presenter is being considered.

Though Willoughby and Schofield won’t receive any awards, their This Morning colleague Alison Hammond has received a nomination in the TV Presenter category, alongside Bradley Walsh, Graham Norton and Ant & Dec,...

Time is a funny thing. A constant that on occasion appears to move at great pace, and at other moments with a glacial trickle. But all my preconceptions about the apparent mutability of time have been thrown out the window with this season of House of the Dragon. Time has moved in a hop, skip and a jump, with actors replacing actors replacing actors. And all the same, despite another six-year gap before this week’s episode, “The Lord of the Tides”, most of these beautiful characters haven’t aged a day. There must be something in the Westerosi water.

Turn of the tides

One person who has aged a day – and quite a lot more – is Paddy Considine’s Viserys. The fact that he’s held on this long, despite viewers witnessing his rotting wound in the first episode (very much like coughing in Act One), is a medical miracle.

Time is a funny thing. A constant that on occasion appears to move at great pace, and at other moments with a glacial trickle. But all my preconceptions about the apparent mutability of time have been thrown out the window with this season of House of the Dragon. Time has moved in a hop, skip and a jump, with actors replacing actors replacing actors. And all the same, despite another six-year gap before this week’s episode, “The Lord of the Tides”, most of these beautiful characters haven’t aged a day. There must be something in the Westerosi water.

Turn of the tides

One person who has aged a day – and quite a lot more – is Paddy Considine’s Viserys. The fact that he’s held on this long, despite viewers witnessing his rotting wound in the first episode (very much like coughing in Act One), is a medical miracle.

Time is a funny thing. A constant that on occasion appears to move at great pace, and at other moments with a glacial trickle. But all my preconceptions about the apparent mutability of time have been thrown out the window with this season of House of the Dragon. Time has moved in a hop, skip and a jump, with actors replacing actors replacing actors. And all the same, despite another six-year gap before this week’s episode, “The Lord of the Tides”, most of these beautiful characters haven’t aged a day. There must be something in the Westerosi water.

Turn of the tides

One person who has aged a day – and quite a lot more – is Paddy Considine’s Viserys. The fact that he’s held on this long, despite viewers witnessing his rotting wound in the first episode (very much like coughing in Act One), is a medical miracle.

Jed Mercurio’s Htm Television’s is working on Payback, a six-part crime drama for the UK’s ITV and Britbox International. Morven Christie, Peter Mullan and Prasanna Puwanarajah are leading the cast, and screenwriter Debbie O’Malley is writing.

Billed as a “compelling character-led series,” Payback will follows Lexie Noble,, as she becomes entangled in a perilous police operation to topple a notorious crime lord, Cal Morris. Puwanarajah and Derek Riddell play financial investigators looking into Lexie’s husband Jared, who has been laundering Cal’s illegal earnings behind her back.

Htm Television Creative Director Jed Mercurio is working alongside Hill, his Htm partner Madonna Baptiste and Diederick Santer on behalf of BritBox International on the series.

Aren’t we all sick to the teeth of British crime thrillers by now? The major broadcasters – BBC, ITV, Channels 4 and 5, they’re all to blame – have whittled down the genre to a slick, revoltingly homogenous formula. Just switch out a few proper nouns, spin a wheel to decide who the killer is, and roll film. The Suspect, ITV’s latest five-episode mystery drama, is made in exactly this mould – if you’d told me I was watching Vigil, or Trigger Point, I’d have believed you. But does that make it bad? Not necessarily.

At the centre of The Suspect is Aidan Turner, playing Joe O’Loughlin, an eminent clinical psychologist whom we meet as he talks a young brain tumour patient down from a ledge. In an instant, he becomes the “rooftop hero doctor” to the world. Privately, however, he’s struggling with a recent diagnosis of early-onset Parkinson’s disease.

Louisa Harland, Nick Mohammed, Joely Richardson, Adrian Lester have boarded upcoming Disney+ series “The Ballad of Renegade Nell,” Variety can exclusively reveal.

The Lookout Point production, which is written and exec produced by “Gentleman Jack” writer Sally Wainwright, is an upcoming eight-part adventure and fantasy series about an 18th century young woman who finds herself unwittingly becoming the most famous highwaywoman in the country.

“Derry Girls” star Harland will play the quick-witted and courageous Nell, who ends up on an extraordinary adventure after she is framed for murder – a twist of fate that has far bigger consequences than Nell could ever dream of. Mohammed (“Ted Lasso”) joins as Billy Blind, a “plucky but prickly” spirit while Richardson (“Nip/Tuck”) is eccentric newspaper magnate Lady Eularia Moggerhanger.

“Trigger Point’s” Lester stars as Nell’s nemesis and political schemer the Earl of Poynton.

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The National Television Awards 2022 will take place tonight (Thursday 13 October) after months of anticipation.

Nominees were announced in August, with Peaky Blinders, Heartstopper and Bridgerton all receiving multiple nods.

Voting for the NTAs closes on Thursday 13 October at noon, hours ahead of the ceremony’s broadcast on ITV at 8.00pm.

However, in a surprise to some fans,This Morning’s flagship hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield are not in contention for any awards this year.

The hosting duo, who also present Dancing on Ice together, are usually staples in the list of nominations for TV Presenter.

Last year, only Willoughby was up for an award. This year’s list marks the first time since 2017 that neither presenter is being considered.

Though Willoughby and Schofield won’t receive any awards, their This Morning colleague Alison Hammond has received a nomination in the TV Presenter category, alongside Bradley Walsh, Graham Norton and Ant & Dec,...